Ever Wonder Why California is so Broke?

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[h=1]MORE THAN HALF OF NEW CA DRIVER’S LICENSES GO TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS[/h]

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[h=2]More than half of the new driver’s licenses issued in California during 2015 have gone to illegal immigrants.[/h]“Of the 759,000 total licenses the DMV has issued, 397,000–or 52 percent–have gone to [illegals].”
The surge in illegal licensing is the result of AB 60–a California law that went into effect at the beginning of the year. The law allows applicants to get a license by “only [proving] their identity and California residency, rather than their legal presence in the state.”
According to The Sacramento Bee, the number of applicants is far exceeding the numbers discussed when AB 60 was being considered. Bill proponents predicted “1.4 million applicants over three years,” but they have already received “nearly half a million” applications in the first half of 2015 alone.
The California DMV was overwhelmed at first, and applicants faced “longer wait times and had difficulty making appointments.” DMV spokesperson Jessica Gonzalez said, “It did take a little bit of time to get us acclimated, and now we’re seeing wait times trending down.”
AB 60 was championed by Democrats and “immigrant advocates.” The law is structured in a way that prevents the DMV from sharing information on illegals with agencies.

The bill’s chief sponsor–Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville)–responded to the massive number of illegals getting licenses by suggesting AB 60 makes California roads more secure. He said, “Our roads are now safer knowing 400,000 people who were likely already driving are licensed and insured.”

 

[festeringZit]

[ These gender studies "professors" are out of their fucking minds. She argues that fag sex is not a gay thing, but a male thing. And these are the sicko
liberals that are indoctrinating the youth of America ]


[h=1]GENDER STUDIES PROF: ‘STRAIGHT WHITE MEN CAN PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL CONTACT IN HETEROSEXUAL WAYS’[/h]

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[h=2]A newly published book asks why double standards exist for people who identify as straight men or straight women experimenting with members of the same sex. Basically, when straight women hook up with each other no explanation is required; but when straight men do it, that’s a different story.[/h]Dr Jane Ward, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside has written what may be the definitive (or perhaps the only) book on the subject – ‘Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men‘.
She argues homosexual contact between men is a normal part of male experience – not a gay thing, a guy thing – albeit one society has felt the need to explain away ever since the concepts of homo- and heterosexuality were first defined.
In her interview with Science of Us, Ward points out that when straight women ‘dabble’ it is either frowned upon as attention-grabbing or excused as an exploration of the fluidity of female sexuality. She explains, perhaps scientifically:

“If you look at this belief that women’s sexuality is more receptive – it’s more fluid, it’s triggered by external stimuli, that women have the capacity to be sort of aroused by anything and everything – it really just reinforces what we want to believe about women, which is that women are always sexually available people.
“With men, on the other hand, the idea that they have this hardwired heterosexual impulse to spread their seed and that that’s relatively inflexible, also kind of reinforces the party line about heteronormativity and also frankly, patriarchy.”
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And there’s the first clue – ‘patriarchy‘. The reason why men having sex with men is frowned upon more than women having sex with women in the same circumstances is, says this Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, because of our social system in which males hold primary power.
Inevitably the explanation does not stop there. Dr Ward finds another explanation for society’s double standards. She argues:

“…because white men have been understood as the idealised, most normal, sort of exemplars of normal human sexuality, there’s a lot of work and attention that goes into excusing anything they do or rationalising anything they do that might disrupt that view, and that’s not the case for women or for men of colour.”
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It is for this reason she believes that hazing in college fraternities, sports teams, the military and even prisons shows that straight white men fool themselves into thinking gay activity is really proof of how straight they are. Or as Dr Ward puts it “straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways.”
So, in Ward’s perfect world, what would she want to see? She tells us:

“…what I would like to see first is acknowledgement, more mainstream acknowledgement that everybody has homosexual sex. And when I say that I don’t mean that truly everybody does — there are some people who have no sex and of course there are some people who never have homosexual sex, but if we’re going to talk about who has homosexual sex, we often just think, well, only gay, lesbian, and bisexual-identified people have homosexual sex, but it turns out straight women have a lot of homosexual contact with other women, and so do straight men, and so that means that kind of everybody does, and so I think it would be helpful to just start with greater awareness that homosexual desire is just part of the human condition.”
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One could be forgiven for thinking Dr Ward wants to turn the world gay, or at least bisexual, but to be fair to her that’s not the case. This social justice warrior merely wants to break down boundaries and normality for straight white men, perhaps as means to ending that awful ‘patriarchy’ we labour under.
She concludes in the interview that being straight or, as she puts it, ‘queer’, is very much a defined matter. Simply having homosexual sex does not get you membership of that club:

“…if straight people want in on queer life, that’s about something more than homosexual sex. That’s about queer subculture, which is anchored to a long tradition of anti-normative political practices and anti-normative sex practices and appreciation for a much broader array of bodies and kinds of relationships and so forth, and so I think most straight people don’t actually want to be part of it.
“I think straight people who engage in homosexual sex, what makes them straight is precisely that they have no interest whatsoever in being part of queer subculture, and so in the last chapter I’m making the point that they could if they wanted to, but they don’t, and that’s part of how we know that this is homosexual sex being enacted in the service of heteronormativity.”
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If acceptance of “queer subculture” is the only way not to be straight in Dr Ward’s world, there are plenty of gay people out there who fail to meet her definition.

 

[LENBO]

The stuff these nuts teach in these liberal shitholes is insane.

 

[JDeuce]

Sigh.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-million-spheres-protect-reservoir-water.html

The sea of 96MILLION plastic balls that LA hopes will save it from drought: Reservoir is covered in an ocean of black spheres to stop 300million gallons of water evaporating

The balls work by floating on the surface and blocking the sun's rays.
As well as protecting against evaporation, they also prevent the chemical reaction that creates the carcinogenic compound bromate.
For most people, exposure to bromate - created from naturally-occurring bromide in water -is unlikely to be cause problems.
But some people who ingest large amounts of bromate have suffered nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain.

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People can get sick...that's totally cool. But Christ forbid we build a reservoir that may disrupt the daily activities of crayfish.

Utter fucking morons.

I can hardly wait to watch the avalanche of health-related lawsuits against the state that result from this cockamamie plan.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

As long as you don’t say alien everything will be fine.

 

[festeringZit]

[ Libtard maggots in California. The state is virtually bankrupt, but they're making the working class pay for ILLEGALS to have FREE medical care ]

[h=1]As Calif. moves on Medicaid expansion, study finds half of illegal immigrants qualify[/h]

By Adam Shaw
Published November 13, 2015FoxNews.com


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April 10, 2013: Protester Yolanda Araujo holds a mock resident alien card at a rally for immigration reform near Senator Dianne Feinstein's office, in Los Angeles, California. (Reuters)


Over half of all illegal immigrants in California earn incomes so low that they would be eligible for the state Medicaid system Medi-Cal, a new study has found, just as California is about to extend the health insurance to children in the country illegally.
The non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California concluded that, should the deep blue state choose to go further and expand the program to include all illegal immigrants, 51 percent of them would have incomes low enough to be eligible for the program.
The study estimates that there are approximately 2.6 million illegal immigrants living in California, and so approximately 1.4 million would be eligible for Medi-Cal benefits should they be extended to them.
In some areas, such as Los Angeles County, the number of illegal immigrants eligible rises to 58 percent.
To qualify for Medi-Cal on income, a family must be earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line. In real terms, for a family of four the eligibility cut off is $32,913.

Critics of California’s immigration policy described the findings as evidence of the “self-inflicted costs” the state has incurred due to poor policy decisions.
“This is a consequence of policies California has implemented over many years that have induced a lot of people to settle in California who will rely heavily on government services,” Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told FoxNews.com.
“These are the self-inflicted costs of essentially saying to people, ‘come here and settle illegally and take advantage of us,’” Mehlman said.
In October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that extended Medi-Cal to illegal immigrant children as of 2016, which is estimated to apply to approximately 170,000 children.
Some lawmakers in the state see the move as only a first step, however. State Sen. Ricardo Lara advocates expanding health insurance to all illegal immigrants in the state. An early version of his bill failed after being priced at more than $1 billion, the LA Times reported.
"We have made tremendous progress in California this year to address these health disparities by expanding access to health care coverage for all children, but as this report indicates there is so much work still to be done,” Lara told FoxNews.com.
“That work continues with SB 10 next year, to expand Medi-Cal to uninsured, undocumented adults and to remove barriers to the state exchange to allow undocumented immigrants who can afford it to purchase insurance with their own money.”
Mehlman says that despite the costs that would be associated with expanding Medi-Cal, he believes California may eventually open up health care programs to more illegal immigrants.
“You would think the cost would damage the chances of it happening, but if you look at the way the California legislature has operated for the last 10-15 years, it seems even as they’re dealing with tight budgets and cutting services for other people, they keep coming up with new benefits for people who are in the country illegally,” he said.
“The nature of politics in California leaves the possibility they’ll do this in spite of the costs.”

 

[festeringZit]

[ Liberalism never works, because it sucks ass ]

[h=1]LA.: After Spending $25B on Welfare, Homelessness up 20%[/h]

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[h=2]The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has declared that with a 20 percent jump this year, Los Angeles is still leading the nation in homelessness–despite $25 billion a year in welfare spending going to the L.A. region.[/h]HUD’s 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress for 3,000 cities and counties estimates that homelessness has declined by 2 percent nationally, but increased by 3 percent in big cities. The booby prize for the worst performance went to the Los Angeles region, with a 20 percent increase, to 41,174 homeless persons.
Liberal L.A. politicians were outraged at the grim news. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin said, “We’re now a city of shanties.” County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas added “This is a moral outrage. It represents a failure of both the public and private sector.”
But such statistics comes as no surprise to Breitbart News, which has published numerous reports about how California’s extremist taxation, regulation and spending policies have damaged private sector job creation and motivated middle class residents to move to other states. The only reason that the Golden State has achieved any population gain in the last decade is due to importing foreign immigrants.
Since 2005, California’s annual domestic net migration has been negative, with more Americans leaving the state than moving to the state. The almost 200,000 Americans who leave each year are offset by about the same number of foreign immigrants.
Half of the foreign immigrants have some legal status (including green cards and visas), and the other half are illegal aliens/undocumented workers, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Most illegal immigrants tend to have few skills.
The size of California’s foreign-born population hit 10,175,839, or about 27 percent of all California residents, according to the latest census figures for December 31, 2013. The top countries of origin for foreign immigrants were Mexico, Philippines and China.
Despite huge efforts by the Obama administration and Democrat-controlled state government to extend legal status to all foreign immigrants, about 2.67 million California residents are still “undocumented,” according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Importing about 100,000 unskilled and undocumented foreign immigrants each year explains why the City of Los Angeles has achieved the crown as America’s Poorest Big City, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data. California’s overall rate of poverty is 16.8 percent.
Breitbart News recently reported that in WalletHub’s annual survey, California has all 20 of the worst small cities in America according to measures of “1) Affordability, 2) Economic Health, 3) Education & Health and 4) Quality of Life.”
The latest publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research on the causes of poverty found that there is a direct correlation between “clustering” of immigrants and the ability to receive welfare.
NBER analysts determined that California becoming much more generous in its welfare provisions between 1970 and 1990 made the state a magnet for illegal immigrants. California’s Aid to Families with Dependent Children is 20 percent above that provided by New York; 89 percent larger than that provided in Illinois, and almost 280 percent greater than the package offered by Texas.
HUD’s assessment reported that as of January 2015, there were 564,708 homeless people in America, with major cities now accounting for almost half of the “unsheltered” population. With a 20 percent annual growth rate, Los Angeles homelessness is growing about twice as fast as homelessness New York and almost three times as fast as homelessness in Chicago.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti declared war on homelessness this summer, and pledged to build more affordable housing and spend an additional $100 million on measures such as new shelters and vouchers to cover rent and security deposits temporarily.
But with about half of California’s $51.5 billion state and local welfare expenditures already going to the Los Angeles region, continually spending more government money on homelessness has not reduced the problem.

 

[SheriffJoe]

[ Liberalism never works, because it sucks ass ]

LA.: After Spending $25B on Welfare, Homelessness up 20%

But, but, but....it's for widows and children! Have you no compassion????

 

[Acebb]

Liberalism is a failure everywhere it is implemented:

Once the beacon of opportunity, California is becoming a graveyard of middle-class aspiration, particularly for the young. In a recent survey of states where “the middle class is dying,” based on earning trajectories for middle-income cohorts, Business Insider ranked California first, with shrinking middle-class earnings and the third-highest proportion of wealth concentrated in the top 20 percent.

Most hurt, though, are the poor. California is home to a remarkable 77 of the country’s 297 most “economically challenged,” cities based on levels of poverty and employment, according to a recent USC study; altogether these cities have a population of more than 12 million.

 

[festeringZit]

[ We've got libtards in here that try to claim that Democrat voter fraud is non-existent. You can't make up how dumb these fuckers are. ]

[h=1]California Signs Law Allowing Illegals To Vote[/h] TOPICS:California Allows Illegals To VoteMoter Voter LawMoter Voter Law CorruptionVoter FraudVoter ID Laws

Gov. Jerry Brown Loves the Illegals. Now they can vote!



Posted By: Adam Lankford October 28, 2015
[h=1]The California “Motor Voter” Law Will Allow Illegal Aliens To Vote[/h] A California state bill was just signed in to law by Gov. Jerry Brown, that will register and allow illegal aliens to vote in US Elections. The New Motor Voter Act (A.B.1461) that is now law in California, automatically registers residents of California to vote at the DMV. According to the law and a report by the Washington Times, “The New Motor Voter Act automatically registers to vote all eligible voters when they obtain or renew their drivers licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles instead of requiring them to fill out a form.”
“The goal is to ease barriers to voting, but election-integrity advocates warn that the measure could inadvertently add millions of illegal voters to the rolls given that California allows undocumented aliens to obtain drivers licenses.” California state officials are praising the law and Alex Padilla, California’s Secretary of State says, “Citizens should not be required to opt in to their fundamental right to vote. We do not have to opt in to other rights, such as free speech or due process. The right to vote should be no different.” State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez from San Diego said, “This bill will lead to millions more registered California voters, which means more people we can talk to.”
Illegal Immigrants line up at California DMV offices to register to vote

The RAW Scoop is this. Critics of the law have called it for what it really is. Absolute and complete voter fraud and corruption on a grand scale. Stephen Frank from California Political Review issued a statement saying, “A.B. 1461 assures corruption of our elections. Our elections will look like those of Mexico and other corrupt nations and honest people will stop voting, since illegals will out vote them.” Linda Paine of the Elections Integrity Project says, “Citizens must oppose this treasonous attempt to turn California into a form of government that gives control to non-citizens.”
As you may have read, we broke a story back in August on voter fraud that the mainstream media has refused to cover. You can see it HERE Our election process is corrupt enough in the United States without the need for “Legislated Corruption” that California just implemented. In a state that controls 55 Electoral College votes and is loaded with Illegal Aliens and Sanctuary Cities, it is highly unlikely that California will ever be “Red” again. What this law will do, is guarantee millions of illegal popular votes, completely skewing the results in to the Democratic column forever. It will also be the start of many other “Blue” states moving towards a similar law. We need to make it known that this hostile takeover by Illegal Immigrants cannot be allowed to continue. I am sick of the “rights” argument. If you are here illegally, you have no rights. Including the right to vote. This law is scandalous and shameful to say the least…
[h=1]UPDATE: Since we are getting hammered with questions of truth and credibility, here is the law in it’s text that you can read for yourself. California Law AB-1461[/h]

 

[SheriffJoe]

California has the most electoral votes in the next election (55). New York has 31. That's 86 out of 270: 32% of the electoral college!

Quick: Name two bigger fucked up states than CA and NY? Even the libtards in here don't try and defend the insanity coming out of these two backassward states.

 

[Acebb]

Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation in Southern California

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the region's largest carrier, lost more than 10% of its boardings from 2006 to 2015, a decline that appears to be accelerating. Despite a $9-billion investment in new light rail and subway lines, Metro now has fewer boardings than it did three decades ago, when buses were the county's only transit option.

Most other agencies fare no better. In Orange County, bus ridership plummeted 30% in the last seven years, while some smaller bus operators across the region have experienced declines approaching 25%. In the last two years alone, a Metro study found that 16 transit providers in Los Angeles County saw average quarterly declines of 4% to 5%.

:hammerit
Modern liberalism:
1. Spend billions
2. Lose ridership
3. Profit!

 

[Acebb]

You can't get much more failure than this:

At a time when twentysomething billionaires are being minted, largely in the Bay Area, California’s middle class is being hammered. The state now ranks third from the bottom, ahead of only New York and the District of Columbia, for the lowest homeownership rate, some 54 percent, a number that since 2009 has declined 5 percent more than the national average. The peasants, it appears, are expected to remain landless much longer, or be forced to leave the state.

Rather than a land of opportunity, our “new” California increasingly resembles a class-bound medieval society. The proportion of aggregate income taken by the top 1 percent is greatest in a couple of Californian metros, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as New York. California is the most unequal state when it comes to well-being, according to the report by Measure of America, which is a project of the Social Science Research Council.

 

[Acebb]

Bye, bye Carl's Jr.: Parent company CKE moving California HQ to Nashville


The parent company of Carl’s Jr., founded in Anaheim 60 years ago, is relocating its California headquarters to Nashville, Tenn.

 

[festeringZit]

[ You can't teach Christianity in the schools, but the fucking maggot liberals in kooky California will indoctrinate your children about Allah
being the one true God. You can't make this shit up. ]

 

[Acebb]

California relies on 1% of taxpayers for 40% of state income tax revenue.

If only those people paid their "fair share!"

 

[Acebb]

San Francisco Torn as Some See ‘Street Behavior’ Worsen


Recent data from the F.B.I. show that San Francisco has the highest per-capita property crime rate of the nation’s top 50 cities. About half the cases here are thefts from vehicles, smash-and-grabs that scatter glittering broken glass onto the sidewalks.

The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes.




That is the end state of modern liberalism. When someone bashes in your car windows you have a "forgiving attitude" because they are poor. Or grew up without a participation trophy.

Or something.

 

[busterhyman]

but isn't obuma the one true god.

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]California tax official got $130,000 worth of office furniture[/h]

What a heart-warming story.

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]University of California Announces $8.4 Million in Support for Undocumented Students[/h]

"Support for undocumented UC students has been a priority for Janet Napolitano since she became president of the University of California in the fall of 2013," Steve Montiel, Napolitano's press secretary told NBC News. "The $5 million she allocated for student services and financial support in 2013 was scheduled to end in June of this year, and now she's providing another $7.5 million to UC campuses for the next three years. She's also committing $5 million a year for at least three years to UC's DREAM loan fund and $2.7 million over a three-year period to the Undocumented Legal Services Center at UC Davis, which will enable the center to expand the services it provides to students and then families."

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Just unbelievable.